shinjitai

English

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Etymology

Transliteration from Japanese 新(しん)字(じ)体(たい) (shinjitai).

Noun

shinjitai (plural shinjitai)

1. The simplified form of Japanese kanji used after 1947.

   Coordinate term: kyūjitai

   • 1992, The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, volume 26, issue 1, page 47:

     However, when a traditional “correct” radical has been obscured by the postwar adoption of a simplified form (shinjitai), that radical is simply ignored.

Derived terms

• extended shinjitai

Translations

simplified form of Japanese kanji

Chinese: Cantonese: 新字體 / 新字体 (san1 zi6 tai2) Mandarin: 新字體 / 新字体 (zh) (xīnzìtǐ), 日本新字體 / 日本新字体 (Rìběn xīnzìtǐ) Estonian: lihtsustatud kanji Finnish: yksinkertaistettu kanji French: shinjitai (fr) m Japanese: 新字体 (ja) (shinjitai) Korean: 신자체(新字體) (sinjache) Malay: kanji mudah Polish: shinjitai n Russian: синдзита́й (ru) m (sindzitáj) Vietnamese: tân tự thể

Japanese

Romanization

shinjitai

1. Rōmaji transcription of しんじたい